On the history of the Old English prefix sam
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Universidad de Alcalá
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- Isabel Moskowich-Spiegel Fandiño (coord.)
- Begoña Crespo García (coord.)
- Inés Lareo Martín (coord.)
- Paula Lojo Sandino (coord.)
Publisher: Servizo de Publicacións ; Universidade da Coruña
ISBN: 978-84-9749-401-4
Year of publication: 2010
Volume Title: Part I, A-K
Volume: 1
Pages: 246-255
Congress: International Conference on Corpus Linguistics (2. 2010. A Coruña)
Type: Conference paper
Abstract
The objective of the present paper is to trace the historical development of the Old English prefix sam-,which declined in productivity and eventually ceased to be productive at all in Present-Day English. Forthe Old English period, the data have been obtained from the database Nerthus, a comprehensive toolthat allows the retrieval of records taking as basis different criteria. All in all, the information extractedfrom this database will be complemented by consulting various relevant lexicographic works. Likewise,different Middle English dictionaries as well as the Oxford English Dictionary will be used to examinethe evolution of the prefix through the later periods of the history of English. Finally, the HelsinkiCorpus will be searched as well